Canadian Born Gov. Jennifer Granholm Was Naturalized In 1980. When Did Ted Cruz Naturalize?

Cold Case Posse Supporter | July 21, 2013 | Cold Case Posse Supporter

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

Since Canadian born Ted Cruz has emerged on the scene in Washington as a future presidential candidate for 2016, attention has turned to whether he is Constitutionally eligible for Article 2 Section 1, the presidential qualification clause. This is what we know. Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Many say that disqualifies him to be eligible for the presidency. Enter former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I came across an interview she did with Fox News's Chris Wallace in February of 2010. During the interview Wallace brought up the fact that since she was born in Canada, she wasn't eligible to be president. Here is the transcript:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/21/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-future-gop/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fpolitics+%2528Text+-+Politics%2529

"GRANHOLM: No, I’m totally focused this year on creating every single job I can until the last moment. December 31st at midnight is when I’ll stop. So I have no idea what I’m going to do next, but I’m not going to run for president. I can tell you that.

WALLACE: Yes, that’s true. We should point out Governor Granholm is a Canadian and cannot run for president.

GRANHOLM: I’m American. I’ve got dual citizenship.”

With that said, I went to the biography of Jennifer Granholm and found that she was born to one American citizen and is indeed a dual Citizen who became 'NATURALIZED' as a U.S. Citizen in 1980 at the age of 21. Now this raises a question. How can a naturalized U.S. Citizen become president of the United States?

Continued below.

[little jeremiah]

Chester Arthur hiding his non-citizen father’s status has been discussed numerous times on FR with facts and quotes and sources to back it up.

It’s a fact. You can do the research because there have been thousands of comments and probably hundreds of threads, many of them a few thousand comments long.

You’re late to the party...

[MHGinTN]

Democrip Internet vermin have a reason to try and get Cruz intot he nomination process ... chaos serves the democrips, not the republicants. What better way to insure another commie democrip in office than to have one nominated, and right before the election declared ineligible? Lying is the natural process for democrip operatives. They do it as easily as breathing, so a bolo might be in order when sudden rabid supporters show up to spit on birthers.

[little jeremiah]

Exactly. It’s patently obvious.

And as some good freepers often point out - the real problem here is not this thug or that thug, but the entire revolution against the rule of law.

[txhurl]

Cruz is baiting the RATS to bring birther on him. You can’t see that?

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

Give me a link to an official statement by Cruz stating he is eligible for the presidency.

[MHGinTN]

Perhaps, we will see. Frankly, I would rather have Cruz in t he Congress instead of the White House.

[Nero Germanicus]

Was a Certificate of Naturalization issued to him?

[ConstantSkeptic]

Thanks Jeff. I couldn’t find a credible reference, either, saying that Granholm’s mother was anything other than a Canadian citizen. Which, of course, explains why Jennifer Granholm had to be naturalized a U.S. citizen while Ted Cruz, having a U.S. citizen parent, did not.

[Nero Germanicus]

Is a statement official enough if it comes from Senator Cruz’s mouth?

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/07/canadian-born-ted-cruz-says-facts-are-clear-hes-eligible-to-be-president.html/

[itsahoot]

Cruz was a citizen at birth - period.

You Dogg are mistaken. Find another dead horse to flog, this one is getting pretty tattered.

[itsahoot]

Obviously, he was deemed eligible.

A Senate, Sense of the Senate resolution has exactly as much legal standing as your nonsense opinion.

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

The title to that article is misleading. No where in the article does Ted Cruz state he is eligible for the presidency. In fact he avoids it. All he says is this from the article:

[Sen. Ted Cruz rejected questions Sunday over his eligibility to be president, saying that although he was born in Canada “the facts are clear” that he’s a U.S. citizen. “My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She’s a U.S. citizen, so I’m a U.S. citizen by birth,” Cruz told ABC. “I’m not going to engage in a legal debate.”]

And

[“I can tell you where I was born and who my parents were. And then as a legal matter, others can worry about that. I’m not going to engage,” Cruz said in the interview with “This Week” on ABC.]

Why do you think Ted doesn’t just come out and admit he is eligible for Article 2 Section 1 and that he is a official natural born Citizen?

[Nero Germanicus]

The courts have ruled differently:
Tisdale v Obama, US District Court Judge John A. Gibney, Jr.: “It is well settled that those born within the United States are natural born citizens.”— Tisdale v Obama, US District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, January 23, 2012.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/82011399/Tisdale-v-Obama-EDVA-3-12-cv-00036-Doc-2-ORDER-23-Jan-2012

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Swensson, Powell, Farrar and Welden v Obama, Administrative Law Judge Michael Mahili, State of Georgia Administrative Hearings: “For the purposes of this analysis, the Court considered that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Therefore, as discussed in Ankeny, he became a citizen at birth and is a natural born citizen. Accordingly, President Barack Obama is eligible as a candidate for the presidential primary under O.C.G.A. under Section 21-2-5(b). February 3, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/80424508/Swensson-Powell-Farrar-Welden-vs-Obama-Judge-Michael-Malihi-s-Final-Order-Georgia-Ballot-Access-Challenge-2-3-12

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Allen v Obama, Arizona Superior Court Judge Richard E. Gordon: “Arizona courts are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent in construing the United States Constitution, and this precedent fully supports that President Obama is a natural born citizen under the Constitution and thus qualified to hold the office of President. Contrary to Plaintiff’s assertion, Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1874), does not hold otherwise.”—Pima County Superior Court, Tuscon, Arizona, March 7, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/84531299/AZ-2012-03-07-Allen-v-Obama-C20121317-ORDER-Dismissing-Complaint

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Purpura & Moran v Obama: New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff S. Masin: “No court, federal, state or administrative, has accepted the challengers’ position that Mr. Obama is not a “natural born Citizen” due to the acknowledged fact that his father was born in Kenya and was a British citizen by virtue of the then applicable British Nationality Act. Nor has the fact that Obama had, or may have had, dual citizenship at the time of his birth and thereafter been held to deny him the status of natural born. It is unnecessary to reinvent the wheel here. … The petitioners’ legal position on this issue, however well intentioned, has no merit in law. Thus, accepting for the point of this issue that Mr. Obama was born in Hawaii, he is a ‘natural born Citizen’ regardless of the status of his father.” April 10, 2012
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88936737/2012-04-10-NJ-Purpura-Moran-v-Obama-Initial-Decision-of-ALJ-Masin-Apuzzo

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Taitz v Obama (Quo Warranto) “This is one of several such suits filed by Ms. Taitz in her quixotic attempt to prove that President Obama is not a natural born citizen, as is required by the Constitution. This Court is not willing to go tilting at windmills with her.”— Chief US District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth, US District Court for the District of Columbia, April 14, 2010
http://www.scribd.com/doc/30040084/TAITZ-v-OBAMA-QW-23-MEMORANDUM-OPINION-dcd-04502943496-23-0

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Voeltz v Obama, Judge John C. Cooper, Leon County, Florida Circuit Court Judge: “In addition, to the extent that the complaint alleges that President Obama is not a “natural born citizen” even though born int he United States, the Court is in agreement with other courts that have considered this issue, namely, that persons born within the borders of the United States are “natural born citizens” for Article II, Section 1 purposes, regardless of the citizenship of their parents.”—September 6, 2012
http://judicial.clerk.leon.fl.us/image_orders.asp?caseid=77182640&jiscaseid=&defseq=&chargeseq=&dktid=57485906&dktsource=CRTV

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

Jeff the Dr. Conspiracy and Fogbow disciple makes a misleading post again. Notice how you obfuscate? You only posted about her father and her paternal grandparents! You elude mentioning anything about her mother. Why?

[txhurl]

Why do you think Ted doesn’t just come out and admit he is eligible for Article 2 Section 1 and that he is a official natural born Citizen?

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Because he knows how to settle NBC. And you don’t. And don’t care to know how.

[ConstantSkeptic]

Jennifer Granholm’s mother was a Canadian citizen. Where did you come up with the idea that she wasn’t???

[Cold Case Posse Supporter]

Oh I’m all for him raising the issue. It’s just that despite that, he is still not Constitutionally qualified for Article 2 Section 1.

[txhurl]

Well ya sure don’t act like it.

Noob.

[little jeremiah]

I clicked the link and read the article and NOWHERE in the article does Cruz make the claim that he is eligible to be president. The headline says it but Cruz is not quoted as saying anything about it. Show me the sentence "from Sen. Cruz' mouth" because it must be from some other article! The below is the only mention in the entire article:

Sen. Ted Cruz rejected questions Sunday over his eligibility to be president, saying that although he was born in Canada “the facts are clear” that he’s a U.S. citizen.

Claiming to be a US Citizen and claiming to be a NBC and thus eligible to be president are not the synonymous.

[txhurl]

‘The Left will show you what they fear’.